5/29/09

When grocery shopping I'm amazed at how many food things consisting of the wonderful combo chocolate & peanut butter I go for. Sports bars, ice cream, muffins, cookies, etc... Seriously. I am also still floored everytime I go to Whole Foods and look at the energy bar section and see how many bars NEW bars there are with chocolate & pb combo. The latest find was achocolate and spirilina bar! Yeah, pretty wild. I thought oh ick, this has to taste horrible. And with that said, I went ahead and bought one! LOL. To be honest it wasn't that bad. Granted it did not taste like a candy bar, but it did not taste like chocolate covered lawn clippings. It wasn't bad, really, and it was good for me. It had an ingredient list I could relate to (no chemical degree necessary to read it).Well with all these constant cravings of things relating to the "chocolate and peanut butter family" I've always wanted to do a bread. Hence, my latest creation. This bread came out great. It's not that moist like a banana bread would be, but it truly did taste amazing when it was sliced, toasted with butter on top.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a loaf pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Set aside.In a small bowl mix the buttermilk and eggs together. In another bowl sift the flours, baking powder, and salt.In a large bowl, cream sugar, peanut butter, and vanilla; add in the buttermilk & egg mixture. Then beat in the flour mixture; beat well until just combined.By hand add in the milk chocolate chunks.Pour batter into greased loaf pan and bake for 50 - 55 minutes until golden brown and a skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool in pan 10 minutes before unmolding.**note: on the last 30 minutes of baking I put a bit of melted butter on the top, then sprinkled some raw sugar chunks on the top of the bread, optional, but wonderful**

This recipe and photographs are copyrighted and the property of Dawn Finicane

Now you CAN'T POSSIBLY go wrong with this winning combo, Dawn. Ohhhhhhh I want to make this so bad...but I just had a bake-a-thon this morning. RATS! OK-the recipe will keep for another day......that won't be far off me thinks. :)

Okay, you're KILLING me. I absolutely love peanut butter, but this addiction has added pounds and so i recently joined Weight Watchers. So far I am down 17 pounds, but I must admit that last night at my daughter's house I opened a jar of PB and took a deep, entrancing whiff. Didn't even need to eat any ... just the smell got me high. But I swear if you post any more peanut butter-chocolate combinations, all will be LOST. It looks SO GOOD.

Oh, this bread speaks to me. Yep, it's telling me that I need to run into the kitchen to make it right now. I think PB and chocolate are such a fabulous couple; so fun to be around! I can't wait to make this loaf, Dawn. Like I've said before, you're a genius!

Bananas do make quick-breads extra moist, but I find they don't keep very well, so sometimes I shy away from them because it stresses me out to have a ticking clock on my loafs! This PB and choco bread looks great! I can see myself slapping some PB on the toasted slice too :)

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